Eluru: Student shot dead in US had applied for H-1B visa, was hopeful of landing job
Veera was planning to visit India by the end of May
By Newsmeter Network
Eluru: Saiesh Veera, a 24-year-old Telugu student from Eluru who was shot dead by robbers in the United States on Thursday, had applied for an H-1B visa as he wanted to give his family a good life.
Veera's father, who used to teach economics at Eluru's C R Reddy College, passed away four years ago. Now, the death of the Master's student leaves behind his homemaker mother and an older brother, Venkatesh.
"My brother always had the ambition of sending both the sons or at least one of them to the US for higher studies," Veera's uncle Narasimha Rao told the media.
Rao is the younger brother of Veera's father and lives in Palakollu.
He said the family took a bank loan to send their son to a foreign university after he completed electrical engineering at the same college where his father had worked. Rao said Veera had completed his course in the US and in another 20 days he would have got a placement.
According to his uncle, Veera had applied for an H-1B visa and exuded confidence that he would bag it. Anticipating these changes, he had also tendered his resignation at the fuel station where he was doing part-time work when he was tragically killed, said Rao.
Veera was planning to visit India by the end of May, his uncle said. Veera had called home last weekend. The family members did not know where Veera had landed a job or other details.
Besides academics, Rao said, his nephew had been an excellent all-rounder in cricket. He said Veera used to actively participate in local tournaments at home and in the US.
He said the family members had just seen a few news reports and photographs of his cricketing exploits in the US through some American media outlets.
Meanwhile, Eluru district collector V Prasanna Venkatesh called up Veera's family members and spoke to them, assuring help from the government to bring back his body.
The local sub-divisional police officer, municipal commissioner, and deputy collector too visited the victim's home. Eluru MLA Alla Kali Krishna Srinivas (Nani) also visited them and assured them that they would extend all the help needed from the government to bring the body back as early as possible.
Inputs from PTI
